cpython/Lib/test/test_popen.py
Mark Hammond e7fefbf68d Fix bugs:
457466: popenx() argument mangling hangs python
 226766: popen('python -c"...."') tends to hang

Fixes argument quoting in w9xpopen.exe for Windows 9x.  w9xpopen.exe
also never attempts to display a MessageBox when not executed
interactively.

Added test_popen() test.  This test currently just executes
"python -c ..." as a child process, and checks that the expected
arguments were all recieved correctly by the child process.  This
test succeeds for me on Win9x, win2k and Linux, and I hope it does
for other popen supported platforms too :)
2002-04-03 01:47:00 +00:00

37 lines
1.2 KiB
Python

#! /usr/bin/env python
"""Basic tests for os.popen()
Particularly useful for platforms that fake popen.
"""
import os
import sys
from test_support import TestSkipped
from os import popen
# Test that command-lines get down as we expect.
# To do this we execute:
# python -c "import sys;print sys.argv" {rest_of_commandline}
# This results in Python being spawned and printing the sys.argv list.
# We can then eval() the result of this, and see what each argv was.
def _do_test_commandline(cmdline, expected):
cmd = 'python -c "import sys;print sys.argv" %s' % (cmdline,)
data = popen(cmd).read()
got = eval(data)[1:] # strip off argv[0]
if got != expected:
print "Error in popen commandline handling."
print " executed '%s', expected '%r', but got '%r'" \
% (cmdline, expected, got)
def _test_commandline():
_do_test_commandline("foo bar", ["foo", "bar"])
_do_test_commandline('foo "spam and eggs" "silly walk"', ["foo", "spam and eggs", "silly walk"])
_do_test_commandline('foo "a \\"quoted\\" arg" bar', ["foo", 'a "quoted" arg', "bar"])
print "popen seemed to process the command-line correctly"
def main():
print "Test popen:"
_test_commandline()
main()